Transient emotional events and individual affective traits affect emotion recognition in a perceptual decision-making task

Article Article scientifique Article Transient emotional events and individual affective traits affect emotion recognition in a perceptual decision-making task eng 2017 author Qiao Emilie 0000-0003-3137-8033 750988 author Garcia Quesada Maria 814212 author Antico Lia 782404 author Bavelier Daphné 737548 author Vuilleumier Patrik 0000-0002-8198-9214 134853 author Pichon Swann Jean Antoine 0000-0001-5697-702X 693992 1-16 10.1371/journal.pone.0171375 28151976 1932-6203 Both affective states and personality traits shape how we perceive the social world and interpret emotions. The literature on affective priming has mostly focused on brief influences of emotional stimuli and emotional states on perceptual and cognitive processes. Yet this approach does not fully capture more dynamic processes at the root of emotional states, with such states lingering beyond the duration of the inducing external stimuli. Our goal was to put in perspective three different types of affective states (induced affective states, more sustained mood states and affective traits such as depression and anxiety) and investigate how they may interact and influence emotion perception. Here, we hypothesized that absorption into positive and negative emotional episodes generate sustained affective states that outlast the episode period and bias the interpretation of facial expressions in a perceptual decision-making task. We also investigated how such effects are influenced by more sustained mood states and by individual affect traits (depression and anxiety) and whether they interact. Transient emotional states were induced using movie-clips, after which participants performed a forced-choice emotion classification task with morphed facial expressions ranging from fear to happiness. Using a psychometric approach, we show that negative (vs. neutral) clips increased participants' propensity to classify ambiguous faces as fearful during several minutes. In contrast, positive movies biased classification toward happiness only for those clips perceived as most absorbing. Negative mood, anxiety and depression had a stronger effect than transient states and increased the propensity to classify ambiguous faces as fearful. These results provide the first evidence that absorption and different temporal dimensions of emotions have a significant effect on how we perceive facial expressions. Dewey 128.37 Dewey 150 Dewey 616.8 15 Centre interfacultaire en sciences affectives 0D8 53 Département de neurosciences fondamentales 21A 108 Section de psychologie 71 false 1373 Brain & Learning Lab 428 Mécanismes cérébraux du comportement et des fonctions cognitives 701 PLOS ONE 12 2 fc592ade-465a-40a1-a18b-8d082bfb08a7 Article (Published version) Public Qiao-TasseritQuesadaBavelierVuilleumierPichon2017.pdf 2127528 application/pdf CC BY openAccess Centres et instituts / Centre interfacultaire en sciences affectives Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine fondamentale / Département de neurosciences fondamentales Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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